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NRG Energy, Inc. Q4 2008 Earnings Call Transcript
Question-and-Answer Session Operator Certainly sir. Operator Instructions. Our first question will be from the John Kiani of Deutsche Bank. Please go ahead. John Kiani – Deutsche Bank Good morning Unidentified Company Representative Good morning, John. John Kiani – Deutsche Bank It looks like NRG made some positive announcements...
Tags: Texas, Deutsche Bank AG, NRG Energy Inc., Call Transcript, Earnings, Carbon Legislation, Seeking Alpha
Earnings calls 2009-02-12

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Exelon Corp. Q3 2007 Earnings Call Transcript
Question-and-Answer Session Operator [Operator Instructions]. Your first question comes from John Kiani of Deutsche Bank. John Kiani - Deutsche Bank Good morning. We've heard the company talk about M&A recently and I'm trying to better understand the value proposition, do you think Exelon has the...
Tags: Exelon Corp.
Earnings calls 2007-10-28
Carbon Offsets: The Next Cash Crop for Farmers?
Climate legislation could pad --not punish -- the bottom line of farmers who embrace the potential cash crop of the carbon offsets market, according to a report released this week by the Department of Agriculture. The USDA analysis examines the possible impact of climate legislation that reduces...
Tags: Cap-and-Trade, Farmers, U.S. Department Of Agriculture, Study, Income, Analysis, Carbon, USDA Analysis, Operational Accounting, Personal Finance, Finance, Kirsten Korosec
Blog posts 2009-07-23
Australia's carbon trading scheme rejected
The proposed law called for reducing greenhouse gases by between 5 percent and 15 percent of 2000 levels in the next decade, with a conditional upper limit of 25 percent if other nations agreed to similar targets during the December U.N. climate change talks in Copenhagen, Denmark. The Australian government's...
Tags: plan, U.S. Senate, Australia
News items 2009-08-13
Former BP Chief Changes Stance on Carbon Trading
John Browne, a former CEO of oil giant BP, doesn't sound like the most likely person to support climate-based governmental regulations. Yet the career engineer and member of the House of Lords was once an enthusiastic backer of government-mandated carbon trading, helping to initiate the first scheme while still an...
Tags: BP Plc, Carbon, Chris Morrison, European Union, Finance, Financial Planning, Free Trade, Government, Obama Administration, Personal Finance, Regulations, Taxes
Blog posts 2009-03-11
Carbon ETN Offers Exposure to a Growing Market
Tom Lydon ETF Trends submits: Climate change legislation is looming, and once it passes, it will touch nearly everything from average people, to huge corporations, to exchange traded funds. Climate change legislation has everyone wondering what its passage could mean to them. Steve Gelsi for MarketWatch explains that the...
Tags: ETF, US Market, Tom Lydon
External links 2009-09-08
McCain, Lieberman Push New, Centrist Approach to Reduce U.S. Global Warming Pollution; New Legislation to be Introduced Today
WASHINGTON, Jan. 8 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Senators John McCain (R-AZ) and Joseph Lieberman (D-CT) are expected to unveil new, bipartisan legislation to reduce U.S. emissions of heat-trapping carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases responsible for global warWASHINGTON, Jan. 8 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Senators John McCain (R-AZ) and Joseph Lieberman (D-CT)...
Tags: Lieberman Software Corp
Research articles 2003-01-08
Will Businesses Push Back Carbon Trading?
President Barack Obama's personal aura tends to give his policy prescriptions a feeling of inevitability. But as the fight over the stimulus package showed, his power only extends so far. At times, the new Administration will need to make compromises, and likely bigger ones than occurred with the stimulus. ...
Tags: Carbon, Government, Federal Government, Financial Accounting, Finance, Chris Morrison
Blog posts 2009-02-26
Cap-and-Trade and Carbon Taxes: Equal Opportunity Boondoggles for Governments
Economists have long argued over whether cap-and-trade, in which emissions permits are traded, or a carbon tax would be better. The answer, once politicians start working, may be neither. The dominant cap-and-trade proposal in the United States have drawn ire for its lack of focus and attempts...
Tags: Cap-and-Trade, Government, Taxes, Free Trade, Personal Finance, Financial Planning, Finance, Chris Morrison
Blog posts 2009-09-11
Putting a Cost on Cap-and-Trade Legislation
Determining the cost of cap-and-trade legislation on U.S. households is one of those inextricable tasks that promises to produce disputed and controversial results. So there was some reason to breathe a sigh of relief -- albeit a small one -- when the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office issued its report late Friday on the...
Tags: Cost, Allowance, Household, Waxman-Markey, CBO, Government, Benefits, Vertical Industries, Personal Finance, Human Resources, Kirsten Korosec
Blog posts 2009-06-22
CNX Gas Corporation Q1 2008 Earnings Call Transcript
Question-and-Answer Session Operator Certainly. Ladies and gentlemen if you would like to ask a question today please press the * then 1 on your touchtone phone. You’ll hear a tone indicating you have been placed in the queue. If your question gets answered and you...
Tags: CNX Gas Corp.
Earnings calls 2008-04-23
Historic Bi-Partisan House Bill to Limit Carbon Dioxide Pollution Reflects Building Momentum for US Action on Global Warming Says WWF
WASHINGTON, March 30 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The following is a statement by Brooks Yeager, vice president, Global Threats, World Wildlife Fund, on a House bill to limit carbon dioxide pollution: "Today's announcement of House legislation to limit heat- trapping carbon dioxide pollution reflects building momentum in the United States for...
Tags: World Wildlife Fund Inc.
Research articles 2004-03-30
The Bureaucratic Cost of Cap-and-Trade Legislation
Cap-and-trade legisation promises to load the plates of numerous government agencies with a lot of work. There will be studies to conduct and reports to prepare; rebates for low-income families to handle; and emissions to auction and regulate. This means more employees and, in turn, higher administrative costs -- to the tune of...
Tags: Cap-and-Trade, CBO, Kirsten Korosec
Blog posts 2009-08-11
EU threatens car makers with legislation to meet Co2 emissions
BRUSSELS AFP — The European Commission threatened to impose legislation on the automobile industry if car makers fail to respect their commitments to reduce carbon dioxide emissions. Carbon dioxide emissions -- a major cause of global warming -- from new cars have declined since 1995, but the EU's executive body...
Tags: car, emission, European Commission, Manufacturing
Research articles 2006-08-29
During all the years we have been debating global warming, Congress has refused to enact legislation regulating carbon emissions or authorizing the Environmental Protection Agency to regulate them
During all the years we have been debating global warming, Congress has refused to enact legislation regulating carbon emissions or authorizing the Environmental Protection Agency to regulate them. Five justices of the Supreme Court evidently wish that the Congress had so acted, and have consequently agreed to pretend that it...
Tags: U.S. Congress, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Research articles 2007-04-30
Origin set for carbon tax gains.
Byline: James Hall Dec 01, 2005 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Australia-based Origin Energy stands to gain from New Zealand NZ carbon tax legislation.The benefit will come indirectly, through ...
Tags: Origin Energy Ltd.
Research articles 2005-12-01
We Energies draws curtain on carbon scrubber
If proposed state rules requiring lower carbon dioxide emissions take effect in 2011, power companies will need to spend a lot of money on technology to help them comply. But state Rep. Spencer Black, the Madison Democrat who is the main sponsor of the carbon dioxide legislation, said...
Tags: Black, We Energies
Research articles 2008-02-28
MULTI-POLLUTANT BILL ADVANCES IN THE SENATE AMID DEBATE OVER CARBON
A Senate committee will begin marking up multi-pollutant legislation later this month, according to one of the legislation's authors. Sen. Jim Jeffords (I-Vt.) told members of the Environment and Public Works Committee "there is no time for delay& A Senate committee will begin marking up multi-pollutant legislation later...
Tags: U.S. Senate
Research articles 2002-06-17
Business maneuvers for economic gain in CO2 legislation; Your view.(Viewpoint essay)
Byline: Howard A. Learner Howard A. Learner is executive director of the Environmental Law & Policy Center in Chicago. The U.S. Supreme Court's recent ruling that carbon dioxide must be regulated under the Clean Air Act puts business on noti Byline:...
Tags: carbon dioxide, Duke Energy Corp.
Research articles 2007-05-28
Denbury Resources, Inc. Q3 2008 Earnings Call Transcript
Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Operator Instructions. Scott Hanold with RBC Capital Markets. Please proceed with your question. Scott Hanold - RBC Capital Markets When looking at the capital requirement for the pipelines here in 2009, it's obviously pretty substantial. I think you mentioned an option using a third party to help...
Tags: Call Transcript, Earnings, RBC Capital Markets, Denbury Resources Inc., Asset Management, Corporate Governance, Financial Accounting, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Finance, Seeking Alpha
Earnings calls 2008-11-04
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